John Fetterman calls fracking a 'stain' on Pennsylvania, laments own 'privileged' life in old Reddit posts
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Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman has not been campaigning much, but in 2016 Reddit posts from his previous campaign he called fracking a "stain," criticized money in politics.
Thomas Phippen is an Editor at Fox News.
Environmental activists have criticized Fetterman's backtrack on hydraulic fracturing — a natural gas extraction method known as fracking — in recent years, but in 2016 he posted support for a moratorium on the practice and wrote that the entire industry was "a stain" on Pennsylvania.
"I'm not pro-fracking and have stated that if we did things right in this state, we wouldn't have fracking," Fetterman wrote in one Reddit post. "The industry is a stain on our state and natural resources. But yes, of course I worry about the viability of getting a ban on fracking done when the industry is already so entrenched in Pennsylvania," he said, adding that he had "signed the Food and Water Watch's pledge to end Fracking."